skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great move forward, but compared to GitHub, this is still very high.

Free -> 9$/m -> 49$/m seems like a much more reasonable pricing. I'm sure more users would pay if fhe price is better.
I agree.

I was reading the Q3 2020 stats yesterday because I'm looking for a new drive.

It was somewhat annoying to have to type the HDD-model into the Google search bar instead of just double-clicking and selecting search from the context menu. It irritated me that it was an image.
If you enjoy this series I really recommend reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It's 40 years old but still the best book I have ever read about what motivates engineers (not entrepeneurs - there are tons of books about that - but rank-and-file engineers).

Actually, the first season of H&CF cribs a lot from the book (from the overall plot to a few very specific anecdotes).
Door to door LTL with lift gates is a thing. The shipper has to request that specific service. Basically, you bought from someone that either didn't know how, or didn't care, to do it the right way. Compared to regular UPS/Fedex, the big downside is that someone has to be there when it arrives. They won't just leave it at your door if you're not there.

The LTL market is ~$46B/year, and was growing prior to COVID. The COVID hit makes sense, as the big boys don't do a lot of LTL, having enough volume to do full truckloads.
Maybe not yet, but neither did we arrive at the current state where e.g. London has an estimated 691k registered CCTV cameras [0] (and many hundreds of thousands more unregistered, as you don't need to register ones that point only at your own property) in a day. Note that a lot of those are already interconnected and linked to recognition systems: TfL and various borough council cameras in particular as part of anti-"serious crime" initiative are an example [1].

Private exercise of the same technology is merely deterred, but not stopped by GDPR (especially now that UK is "happily gone" from "EU overregulation"...).

And of course that ignores China which has cities that have both more total(Beijing, Shanghai) and more per-kilopop (Taiyuan, Wuxi) cameras than London.

[0] https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-there-in-lo...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/business/london-police-fa...
I up voted based on the converse application to the headline, wherein a programmer makes his program more fun by adding ah fictional character to do his logging statements like a story.
I don't use any externally hosted scripts on sites I develop.

Security is part of the reason but the bigger problem I find is tying uptime to somebody else whom I have no control over.
Nitter looks pretty cool. Didn’t know about that one. Does something like that exist for Facebook as well?
I can't tell if this is for real which is a huge compliment if you are indeed just trolling.
Ask HN: Will QNX still continue to be relevant in the future?
A few years back, I remember it being as one of the most stable and reliable operating systems that's being used in critical in infrastructure. Yet today, I barely hear anything about it. Is adoption no longer growing due to Linux?
Some negative comments below, but this is good news. This is the sign that the electric cars on the streets have a critical mass big enough for Shell to invest. The second positive outcome is that if they are directly involved in the electric cars business, they will be one less company trying to stop the greener technologies.

With more and more electric cars on the roads, the demand for the gas stations will decrease and some of them will close. Finding a gas station will become more difficult. It seems that most of the other owners are not thinking long term what will be the effect on their business.
Andy from Backblaze here. Actually you can download a spreadsheet with all the data from the tables. There's a link at the end of the post. Better than parsing HTML for the data.
Unfortunately, some trackers have found ways to abuse these shared resources to follow users around the web. In the case of Firefox’s image cache, a tracker can create a supercookie by “encoding” an identifier for the user in a cached image on one website, and then “retrieving” that identifier on a different website by embedding the same image. To prevent this possibility, Firefox 85 uses a different image cache for every website a user visits. That means we still load cached images when a user revisits the same site, but we don’t share those caches across sites.

Wait, so one form of "supercookie" is basically the same as the transparent gif in an email?

https://help.campaignmonitor.com/email-open-rates#accuracy
I liked the first season a lot but got kind of annoyed when they started just having the main characters invent basically everything from tech history.

That being said, I had a good time watching with my mom who is also in technology, and getting her insights on the references and depiction of 80s tech. She thought it was/is very well done.
Then use something like pg_hint_plan: https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html (never used it myself)

I've been bitten by bad optimizer choices which took way too long to figure out how to debug / fix, so I know the pain. I do hope the PG optimizer continues improving. It's one of the weakest areas in comparison to commercial DB's IMO.
As someone who ships a decent amount of freight via UPS Freight (six time a year, at least), the integration is surface level at best. Yes you can go to the unified billing, but freight was it's own separate section. Yes you can get consolidated package/freight quotes but each had it's own website workflow. Yes you can generate a BOL on the ups.com website but it was way better to use the upsfreight.com website. The Freight API used the same ups.com API server and login, but it was it's own path with it's own xml schema.

It was pretty clear that the integration was, at best, surface level. Especially when the package reps and the freight reps had no clue what the other was doing, letting me know that it was just a siloed org.
That last sentence of yours is key. The US now is the top oil producer, but it's still useful to have KSA there to do our bidding- basically we can crush Russia's and Iran's oil industry instantly, any time we feel like it. And our newer gas discoveries in the US will also let us control that market.

Now, I think we shouldn't be supporting MBS, but I understand the logic behind it. I am sympathetic to the idea that if the House of Saud goes down, a bunch of our other friends in the region are going to be in real trouble- ie all the little emirates, Jordan, Israel, Egypt.
We support a backend API, but it's much more complicated to implement, and the client gets more complex as well. We started out with a vision of all backend integrations, but it was impossible to sell to most publishers.
> I agree that right now it doesn't make sense.

This CRDB engineer respectfully disagrees. This thread takes it as a given that a non-distributed DB is better if you don't need to scale up (i.e. if you run a single "node"). Let me offer a couterpoint: it's easier to embed CRDB into some software you're distributing than it is to embed Postgres. This is to say, we do try to compete at every scale (well, perhaps not at SQLite scale).
CRDB doesn't have all the SQL features of PG, but it does have its pluses: CRDB does online schema changes, it is generally simpler to run, comes with a UI, comes with more observability, can backup to the cloud, can be more easily embedded into tests.

Online schema changes are a big deal; the other thing that I hope will help us win small-scale hearts and minds is the ever-improving observability story. I hope CRDB will develop world-class capabilities here. Other open-source databases traditionally have not had many capabilities out of the box.
Tilt Brush is such a great VR program for users of all ages. It's nice to see google just not killing a project but releasing it for others to keep it going and improve upon.
Nice! I was going to spend the 20 bucks on this on Steam a couple weeks ago. I'll wait for an open source binary to be created and run it that way then!
As a fellow engineer, clever!
As a user, damn you!
Axiom Space press release 26 Jan: Axiom Space reveals historic first private crew to visit International Space Station

https://www.axiomspace.com/press-release/ax1-crew

Axiom Space news:

https://www.axiomspace.com/news
What a grave misunderstanding! What he is demonstrating is remembering, or memory.

It appears that the state of the mouse is [X, Y, Heading], where X and Y are discrete positions in the available cells.

Once the maze has been solved by "a rather involved strategy of trial and error", the solution is saved, and for any of the known states, the mouse "remembers" its way to the exit of the maze.
Pretty clever attack. The attackers were able to install an in-memory backdoor on a fully patched Windows 10. I saw more than a couple researchers on my twitter that were affected.
Rivian moving operations to California (June 2020)
> So your contention is that we should continue to do things that are known to be harmful because...

No, as a matter of fact I stated that bad thing (pollution, stealing )are bad. And i am not advocating for never focusing on it.

My point is that btc is being targeted as big bad meanwhile same people who demonize it for its environmental damage are perfectly fine with heavy industry causing global warming.

This is just hijacking global warming as a problem to bash btc. Do you really not see how political PR works?
I think the "default" will evolve with whatever offers the best "serverless" experience in the public clouds. In particular, the cheapest and most granularly-billed option.
@tdubhro

I’m not sure... can you send a screenshot or your zip (I know there’s a privacy aspect, so you don’t have to) to contact@carbonfootprince.com

Or see if there are any errors in the console if you’re on a desktop browser and post them in a GitHub issue.
Thanks for reporting!
PyTorch and Ml.net Inference Performance Comparison
In which case the next logical question is why have users been flagging it? It does not appear to violate any HN guidelines.
Whats going on whti new Apple 13
I don't think it is. Most popular, groundbreaking technology isn't the first version of itself. Eg, I think of this profile of Tony West: https://www.wired.com/2000/12/soul/

Tony West is the protagonist of The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, the account of Data General creating a new microcomputer in the 80s. The first season of H&CF borrows heavily from it. He was ahead of the curve on a lot of things - laser printers, computers, laptops, thin clients...but never had the ability to bring it all to market in a meaningful way.

The tech industry is full of people like this - people that can build the future but not sell it. I didn't find it unrealistic.
More detail on multiple advances in treating trauma;

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-...
M4 doesn't need to be installed on the software distribution's computer (that was my point).

Perl I don't even know if it needs to be installed on the packager's computer.
Right, and a surgeon doesn't serve as your physical therapist just like the psychiatrist doesn't serve as your talk therapist. They're different roles, even though they're both addressing the same part of your health.
ok, this might suck. We are on bronze right now and yes there where some things in silver that would have been nice to have it was never worth the costs per user to upgrade (especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need), this might mean we either switch to free or abandon gitlab if there is an alternative.
Allegedly there are some patches missing from this repo. shrug
There are a number of non-Chrome browsers on Android - e.g. Brave. They'd probably be happy to use an open-source server. As for Apple, isn't it mandatory 100% Safari anyway?
>It's a slap in the face of the idea of law and order - murderers are at least supposed to do their best to hide their actions.

False flag operations on the other hand are supposed to let many things unhidden...
Two close family members (twins) were born in the late 1950s. An emergency baptism was immediately administered, their mother was told "there is nothing we can do" and the twins were given to her. They both survived.
Google Earth VR. I made so many people try it, almost everyone was amazed.
Wow. So what happens when they are done banning the current batch of things they don't want people to see? What is next for Twitter to tell us how to think?
Nice review but I'd like to hear more about how this thing is to actually use. How does the keyboard fare etc.. The specs are nice and how it performs is decent but the real tradeoffs here aren't in the specs.

Though I suppose most people buying these will dock it most of the time.

I think personally I'd prefer an ultralight 11" with an excellent keyboard. Like a Thinkpad X270 but much thinner and lighter. Below that the keyboard starts getting smallish.
> 1. You can define a function type somewhat clumsily (`Callable[[Arg1T, Arg2T], ReturnT]`), but if your callback uses keyword arguments (pervasive among Python programs), you're out of luck.

I've personally never missed the ability to add keyword arguments to a Callable. If you want to anyway, I understand that at least mypy has syntax for this:

* https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/protocols.html#callbac...

* https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/additional_features.ht...

> Beyond that, it's just the general usability issues that ultimately derive from Python's election to shoehorn a lot of typing functionality into minimal syntax changes

Many syntax niceities will be introduced in upcoming Python releases. From the article:

* Union types are shortened to X | Y (PEP 604)

* (?) Optional types shortened to X? (PEP 645)

* Type Hinting Generics In Standard Collections (PEP 585) - Can use list[T], dict[K, V], etc in place of List[T] and Dict[K, V].

With those changes, you won't generally need to import the `typing` module at all anymore.

> there just isn't enough investment to move it forward.

Dropbox has dedicated engineers maintaining mypy. And of course a few volunteers such as myself. And Guido. :)
So you are correct, of course. I meant to use 1000nm, not 100nm. However, the thing about being in space is you actually COULD use vacuum UV (including 100nm) which doesn’t propagate in fiber and is even blocked by air. Not only does that have the bandwidth advantage but also allows even smaller apertures (or greater gain for the same aperture). Of course, vacuum UV transceivers aren’t really available (you can get coherent UV lasers down to 126nm) but in the long term it is possible.
I spent ~10 months--pretty much the entire pandemic--in Australia. They locked down early, banned international travel, effectively quarantined incoming travelers, rationed repatriation, locked down, social-distanced, and supported business owners and those affected with direct cash payments.

There are still flare-ups that come from international travel not being quarantined well, but because of all of these early efforts, life started to get back to normal. The virus is effectively eradicated there. I don't know where their vaccine program is now, but they actually have a shot at completely beating COVID--forever.

I feel like the US and Europe never really had very effective lockdowns, and far too many infections were already going before they could have been very effective anyway. So I don't think that we even speak the same language when we talk about lockdowns.
in the middle of a pandemic? Not a likely scenario you can do today. Maybe in a year? However, one must walk their dogs and it's outside. Safest way to converse with someone currently. But even the activities you've mentioned, still hard to approach/interrupt a stranger who's working out or in general busy for a conversation with a complete stranger. In most case, when that happens, they're trying to sell you something or invite you into a cult.
> If every drive type, new and old, big and small, did better this year, maybe they changed something in their environment this year?

It can also be the case that newer drives this year are better than newer drives last year, while older drives are over a "hill" in the failure statistics, e.g. it could be the case that there are more 1st-year failures than 2nd-year failures (for a fixed number of drives starting the year).
Then feel free to look it up in the source code, or even patch it.
KDE scales pretty well for me! Even non integer.
interesting. i wonder if it supports linux?
How is this different from Yubikey? We use FIDO keys and HYPR at my office - https://www.hypr.com/
I believe plywood has piles/fibers orthogonal to each other, in this video they were laid over diagonal to the underlying concrete.
Cool, thanks. Didn't know about the new one.

Do you feel like the RP3 teaches proper form, for someone who hasn't had coaching or been on the water?

A drawback of the Oartec is that the display is rudimentary. It'll show you speed/distance, watts, or cal/hr, and that's it.
Especially considering GitHub enterprise is $21/month/user
I know what natural numbers are. But "unnatural" numbers is not a term people use.

"It is more convenient to stay in the naturals."

Right here, you do the same thing Dijkstra does. You declare that one way is more "convenient" than the other (he calls it ugly), without defining what "convenient" means. This makes the argument subjective. What you think is convenient, others may not think so. Or, one may agree with you on a matter of convenience, but would prefer a different choice due to some other priority e.g. learnability.

So I just don't agree this is an airtight argument. It's a subjective argument for a preference at best.
Tell HN: We launched Solo v2 – open security key
Two years ago, during YC Startup School we launched our first ever Kickstarter campaign. It was a great success, thanks also to this crowd.

Today we launched Solo v2: a new security key that you can use to protect your Google, Twitter, Github account with the strongest two-factor authentication.

Solo is special because it's open source. Solo v2 is much more robust, water resistant, has stronger NFC & reversible usb plug. The micro is a NXP LPC55S6x with extra security features and firmware was rewritten in Rust.

Join our campaign and support open source & open hardware! https://solokeys.com/v2
> even in Saudi Arabia, the government officially disapproved and tried the people who did it for murder.

So that it could save MBS's ass when his people questioned why the rest of the world was hating on him. A lot of people in Saudi Arabia were shocked by the gruesome nature of the murder (which American media deftly used to sling shit on them, since Khashoggi was one of their own). If Khashoggi was some ordinary low profile Saudi citizen, and not distantly related to the Royal family and being from a wealthy family himself, his death would have been pretty routine in Saudi Arabia. It's an open secret that Prince Bonesaw ordered the killing, and that the later execution was a farce. Even then, I suspect the execution was disposal for a sloppy job.
"All we had to do was to grow a pair and actually hire these amazing professionals because they're not on Linkedin."

Using crass gendered language around tech hiring is going to be a no for me. This just sounds like a law suit waiting to happen.
I think this is a truism which doesn't always apply.

Suppose that there are 1,000 basement-dwelling redditors (okay, it's a caricature). Each has their basic needs taken care of, but not much money, and not much scope to improve their lot in life. What little money they have doesn't get invested, but spent frivolously.

Suppose 1,000 such people could all put in $500 and give it to a randomly selected one of them. That person wins a life-changing amount of money. They suddenly have their prospects upgraded - they can travel, buy a house, live in some comfort, pursue a dream career. Couldn't it arguably be rational for all 1,000 to participate in that game? Doesn't it make sense that the utility curve is convex, not concave - that $500,000 is more than 1,000 times better than $500, when compared to $0?

After all, suppose that $500 was a year's spare income. Even saving for most of a lifetime would only yield $20-30,000, nothing like enough for many of the opportunities that half a million would make possible. And a lump sum at age 65 could be much less useful than one at age 25. Losing the $500 might barely make a difference to one's quality of life.

Now suppose that to participate in this lottery, they have to pay 10% of the money to Wall Street, or high frequency market makers, or whoever. Couldn't it still be a rational choice for each of the 1,000 to participate?
Plate Tectonics Upended Our Understanding of Earth
Like what? And why would you suspect that? Christian apologists and scholars were active in debating pagans and drew from pagan philosophy, science, etc. And part of the job of an apologist is to respond to things which do not conform to what you cynically call the “party line”. So you should expect various records that reflect that. There’s ideas would resurface sooner or later.
You seem to think that the meaning of "STEM" includes anything that anyone applied the word "science" to. But no, the "science" part is precisely the "hard" sciences. E.g. psychology, economics and theology aren't included in STEM.
Second generation antibody protects from SARS-CoV-2
I've always liked these ideas on paper, but how is this different than other conscious consumerism efforts?

https://qz.com/920561/conscious-consumerism-is-a-lie-heres-a...

And if there isn't a clear legible niche (e.g. Patagonia) what makes someone recognize this?

"They have investors who demand growth, which often forces them to compromise their products and services to meet these demands.
Worker-owned co-ops generally don't have those same pressures because the workers, not the investors, own the business"

Yes, but I think a challenge is to be sooo good you outcompete the more extractive store. Some communities (such as gameb) talk about specific areas (e.g. an honest car mechanic network, or a better call center company) - it isn't just about stuff.
I feel like I've seen some interesting businesses doing good stuff still under a boring legal structure of a boring S-Corp or LLC (while being informally a cooperative), and arguably evil businesses doing things under the veil of a B-Corp.

You may want to check out what we talk about on http://earth-regenerators.mn.co/ . It's a bit less about conscious consumerism and more about land restoration, commons models, and possibly finding some regenerative business models on the pathway there. Looking for folks who've taken classes from https://www.gaiaeducation.org may also help.

(PS: your post got flagged)
76 Days: Inside Wuhan's lockdown – interview with director [video]
Bucks County represent!
The graph (or at least its legend?) appears to be paywalled.

(...OK, it looks like they will let you view it for free, but only if you sign up, aka let them sell your personal data.)
I do a lot of ETL over the years and watched the video and read the intro. I apologize but I haven't a chance to read through the full documentation. My question is, a lot of data I pull are relational and hierarchical, how would I pass variables along to related connectors? And is there a way to wait for a parent connection to finish before the child connector runs?
I've build many ETL over the years and it's not easy to keep up with the changes. The bottleneck was always the engineering adapting to the changing schema.
How do you show how bad something is without showing the thing?

Children are sexualized by the constant messaging they receive from media and advertising. Instead of getting upset about a movie that demonstrates the problem, maybe we should address the problem.